If you knew that his Majesty the King was coming to a dinner party sometime in the next month, but you didn't know when. How would you prepare?

Jesus’s apocalyptic sayings like the ones we heard in our Gospel reading are some of his most difficult sayings to understand, like the first disciples we sometimes wish that he'd made them either easier to understand, like the first disciples, we sometimes wish that he'd made them either easier to understand, or else that he'd just chosen a different topic.

Fr Sam Rossiter-Peter explains that as an audience, we are pretty much guilty of the same lack of insight. We see, for example, how nations have largely ignored the warnings about the crisis of global warming. Even when we see the scientific prophecies coming true, errant weather patterns rising sea levels are more toxic atmosphere. We sti ...